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THIS WEEK I ACTUALLY DID THE WRITING !!

Thank you so much to my dear friends @illumiera and @bougainvillea-and-saltwater for tagging me, this brought a huge smile on my face because I actually have something to share for a wip wednesday! Finally!! I have a memory sequence from the next chapter of WYGTYA and writing kid Ravonna got me so emotional.

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“Can’t sleep.” Ravonna rubbed her eyes.

“How come?” He crouched down to be at face level with her.

“‘Dunno. Give me something strong.” She said with conviction, and Endryin did his best to suppress his laughter.

“You've been hearing that too much. I’m afraid it doesn’t work on eight year-olds.” He ruffled her hair until big green pupils were staring at him annoyed. 

“Well then what do kids do to fall asleep?”

“I don’t know. Can’t remember.” He grinned, teasing her.

“Old man...”

“Let’s see… do you want me to read you a story?” he asked, remembering that that’s what he heard some parents say.

“How does that help me sleep though? I’ll just be listening to you. ‘S rude not to pay attention.”

He really laughed this time, shaking his head and pinching the bridge of his nose. “You’re unbelievable, you know that?” 

“What’s unbelievable is that you don’t have a strong, kid friendly drink to help me sleep.”

“Would miss girl sleep better after a glass of milk, perhaps?”

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Endryn fathered so hard that he mothered. He is, tragically, very fun to write and I wish I could write him as something else other than a flashback, but it is what it is. Gotta save the dad vibes for when I write Hjaldir. I don't know who already did this or not, but I'll tag @kiir-do-faal-rahhe @hircines-hunter @dirty-bosmer @bostoniangirl21 @sheirukitriesfandom

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Behold: The most evil Ravonna Screenshot

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Hey! It's @nerevar-quote-and-star ✨ I was wondering if you'd tell me about "Blackreach stuff" because I'm crazy and love being teased with possible snelves please? 💕

Helloooo! Good to see you here! <33 Ask game can be found here!

Of course!! The word doc with “blackreach stuff” is basically some plans I have for the blackreach quest in WYGTYA! I am in love with that area, and I plan on spending two chapters there. It’s an important point in my fic because this is where the fellowship gets separated, so we will only have Ravonna and Fenrik (Miraak) for a while! They’ll have a lot of time to bond and open up to each other, because they’ll be, at some point, stuck in Sinderion’s house, overwhelmed by the Falmer outside. 

I sadly don't have much about snow elves in this :((( But I have some pivotal moments in Ravvy and Fenrik's relationship in here.

My favourite thing that happens in that crammed house is them opening up and showing each other their scars, and laughing because most of their scars are from stupid things, like Ravonna casting her first telekinesis spell on a cube, launching it in the air and being so distracted by it that it landed right on her forehead, leading to a small scar on the side and Fenrik being a bit too brave once during a storm on a ship (he used to go on fishing trips with his fisherman friends in Atmora) and trying to manually handle the veils in the strong wind, and a rope whipped him good on the side of his neck, cutting him deep enough to leave a scar. They have a good laugh exchanging stories, coming to the wholesome conclusion that scars are beautiful and they tell a story. Then Ravvy will accidentally see some of his more nasty scars from the time he was tortured by the Dragon Cult and she will go insanely mad, saying that she’ll kill and maim whoever did that to him.

Thank you so much for the ask and I'm sorry that it wasn't really the answer you were hoping for.

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WYGTYA lines

@sheirukitriesfandom tagged me in this most wonderful tag game and I am so happy! Thank you for the tag :D Since WYGTYA is my longest work, I'm going to include lines from this fic of mine that I love so very much <3

A line from your fic that makes you laugh (not really a line, but it made me laugh while I wrote chapter 13)

“What on Nirn is a rock’s weakness?” He asks, casting a calm spell to no avail.

“Scissors?” Ravonna responds, chuckling.

“You think this is a good time for jokes? Master Neloth is going to kill me if he finds out!” 

“Scissors, that’s it! Big sword!” she says, the lightbulb of an idea almost visible above her head, making Talvas even more confused. 

“I’m sorry, what?”

“Wait here, I know just the thing!” She immediately levitates rapidly to the main tower, doing a backflip before entering.

"But paper beats rock!" Talvas shouts, but to no avail, Ravonna is already in the tower.

A line from your fic that makes you sad (of course it's a Miraak line, from chapter 6)

“I – yes. I just – ” but he has to turn around before the tears start falling down his cheeks. ‘Be a man’s man and don’t cry. Crying is for weaklings, you soft-hearted little boy! Why can’t you be like your brother? You’re a failure!’ his father’s words ring into his ears and he shivers, wanting nothing more than the earth to swallow him. And so he climbs the stairs as fast as he can and heads straight to his chamber. There, he can finally cry for hours.

A line from your fic you're proud of (not yet part of wygtya, but it will be, this is my Ralof/Hadvar ficlet, and I'm so proud of that watetfall metaphor)

“We were drunk and happy and we thought we had our whole life ahead of us.” Ralof begins, trying to be brave himself and just let his thoughts flow into words like a river turning into a waterfall

A line for your fic you think could have been better (There are a lot of things that could have been written better, but I refuse to beat myself too much over it and embrace the fact that I am evolving and I don't want to over analyse my old writing, so this is from chapter 1, I hate this because Hjaldir's story changed a bit over time! When I wrote this, it was all unclear, and so many things have changed since then, I'm hoping my version of him now isn't too far from this brief first description of him)

“Well, Inigo, it’s actually quite a funny story. Hjaldir turned out to be a runaway pirate. He ran away from his crew because he got tired of getting seasick and stealing from innocent people. So, one night, he just ran away. Decided to become a bard and make honest coin. Ended up at my dad’s tavern.”

A line from your fic that makes you want to punch a character (from chapter 12, DAMN IT, LUCIEN, THEY WERE HAVING A MOMENT)

“Am I… interrupting something?” Lucien asks. Right, Lucien. Fenrik’s almost forgotten about him. How could he not, when all he did was sleep his hangover off?

“No!” both Dragonborn respond at the same time, letting go of each others’ hands.

A line from your fic that makes you go 'aww' (from chapter 13, Ravonna trying her best to comfort Miraak is so precious to me, she is trying her best! And this is a big moment for her, to try to be so comforting to one person who once tried to kill her. It's a lot of progress and I feel like she can see their situation from a mature point of view and she can let go of the vengeance.)

“There we go.” she says as she gets a good look of Fenrik’s teary brown eyes. “Now listen to me: no one is upset with you. I’m starting to think that it’s impossible to be. You didn’t ruin anything, okay? The self-sacrificing healer in you got out. And that’s commendable. Now, please don’t cry because I have no idea what to do with someone who is crying.” She says, making him laugh the tears away. “You’re doing great. I mean, if you need to cry, just let it out, I’ll figure something out. Maybe sparkles? Everyone loves sparkles, right?” She makes small sparkles dance around her other hand

A line from your fic that's full of symbolism (from chapter 12, not sure if this classifies as symbolism, but the snake thing is something that I am so proud of)

"I still felt my soul in there, wrapped tightly in the threatening embrace of all those dragons’ souls. I felt it trying to fight it, to escape, like a small animal trying to escape the python snake’s fatal grip."

A line from your fic that contains an Easter egg (WWDITS reference with a medieval and lore-friendly name replacement! From chapter 3)

"His name was Mikael, if I recall correctly.”

“Fucking Mikael!” Ravonna says, full of spite.

A line from your fic that's shocking (from chapter 13, MIRAAK SAID HIS FIRST ON-SCREEN BAD WORD!! Everyone was shocked hahaha)

“Holy shit!” Fenrik says as they get closer to the Silt Strider, making Ravonna’s job to cheer up much easier. She turns to him with wide eyes, and then looks at the rest of the amused fellowship. Even Teldryn was struggling not to smile. 

A line from your fic you want to talk about more (from chapter 2, IT'S RUMCURIO, CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT RUMCURIO I'M IN RAREPAIR HELL, MY FIC IS LITERALLY THE ONLY ONE WITH THE RUMARIN/MARCURIO TAG I'M GOING INSANE)

“Just come back alive, or I will kill you.” Marcurio says, his forehead resting against Rumarin’s, still pulling him down. It’s not the most comfortable position for Rumarin, but he won’t have it any other way. It makes him think, really. About all the ways he is going to kiss him as soon as he returns from Solstheim. 

Tagging my beloved fellow writer mutuals, only if you want to participate, of course! @bougainvillea-and-saltwater @kiir-do-faal-rahhe @thelavenderelf @mareenavee @dirty-bosmer @blossom-adventures @nerevar-quote-and-star and I'm also tagging @sheirukitriesfandom back to do this challenge!

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I think I made a mistake when I decided to start a new playthrough of BG3 and play as Hjaldir because I'm obsessed now because LOOK AT HIM!! LOOK AT MY PIRATE-BARD!!

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Last line tag!

Thank you so much @totally-not-deacon <3 This game is so fun and whenever I do it, it’s something cursed haha. Anyway, have this little wygtya snippet with no context

“Cliff racer fly so high.... Flyinnn!!” Ravonna joins in, and as great of a bard as she is, she does not make the song any better.

Miraak is absolutely mortified lmao, as is the rest of the fellowship, except Lucien, who is singing along. This happened because I am obsessed with that Oblivion song and it’s in my head 24/7 now. I can’t tag as many people as there are words, but I’ll tag my writer mutuals @bougainvillea-and-saltwater @kiir-do-faal-rahhe, @thelavenderelf, @mareenavee, @dirty-bosmer @sheirukitriesfandom only if you want to do this and haven’t done it already. No pressure <3

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That moment when you don't want to pick a dialogue option because your oc looks too good doing that pose 😭

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Writing from Miraak’s pov while listening to Matt Maeson is a different kind of hurt. 

I MEAN,,, just look at these lyrics :(((

If I don't get better than this man in my skin If I don't get better than this man in my skin

If I let go, would you hold on? Would we fly? Is it safer if we just say that we tried? Are we laughing at the danger? Are we dancing after death, you and I?

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okay, from the WIP tag game: the "girls are fighting" has me in a chokehold, I can't resist that, so I'd like some info about it, if you want...👀

(and I'd also love to know more about the sea shanties wip! 👁️)

IT'S MY DEAREST GIGI IN MY INBOX!! <3 <3 <3 Thank you!! The ask game can be found here!

As I am slowly approaching the time in WYGTYA where the fellowship returns to Skyrim, I keep thinking about something that they sadly cannot really ignore, which is the Civil War. They will go to Windhelm, and Ravonna will have some words for Ulfric!! Here is a little snippet:

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"Your people... they keep saying this over and over again..." Ravonna shakes her head. When Ulfric raises a single eyebrow, she continues, "Skyrim belongs to the Nords" her voice dripping with mockery and disrespect. It makes him sigh in exasperation.

"It is the land of our people. She is our home."

"Then how come I do not feel welcome at all? How come that wherever I go, people stare, and not out of respect or admiration, but out of judgement and avoidance? How come that every Nord mage is either treated like a fucking traitor or not taken seriously? Or even both. Most of the time it's both..." ***

Ahhhh, the sea shanty of the month doc always makes me happy! I started it last year and wanted to keep track of the sea shanties that I obsess over each month hahahaha! I wonder if I should do this for 2024 too! Anyway, my favourite thing about it is that both January and December have the same shanty! It started and ended with this one, and I can say that this is, and has been my fave shanty so far!

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Here's to further fueling the Hjaldir brainrot <3

🍻: What's your OC's favourite comfort ritual? How do they calm themselves down after a rough day?

🍆: Does your OC have any favourite form of affection, physical or otherwise?

🍰: What's something your OC counts as unforgivable?

Aaah, thank you so much 💖💖 Link to the ask game can be found here!

The Hjaldir brainrot is very strong, but I think I'll answer these for the WYGTYA version of Hjaldir, not the one we'll see in 'Hymn of the High seas' because he's grown as a character and a bit different. Also, I think he may appear in WYGTY faster than OTHS but that depends on my inspiration.

🍻: What's your OC's favourite comfort ritual? How do they calm themselves down after a rough day?

Taking the wheel and slowly steering a ship on a warm summer night will always put him at ease. He's a damn good helmsman, too. Also, as we progress with his story, when he was no longer a pirate/sailor, but a bard in Blacklight, well, he didn't need to calm down, his life was very peaceful, but he loved it when they were closing in for the night and did the dishes with Endryn and Ravonna. That was the time when they'd share all the tavern gossip gathered throughout the day. And they'd laugh and make doing the dishes fun

🍆: Does your OC have any favourite form of affection, physical or otherwise?

Hjaldir's love languages are quality time and physical touch! Also, he shows a lot of his love through music. If he likes you, he'll sing to you specifically non stop.

🍰: What's something your OC counts as unforgivable?

Hurting his family and people who discourage young, inexperienced artists.

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In my wygtya feels again, because I just realized something

In Skyrim canon, Teldryn Sero's last job was being the mercenary of a Nord. And my headcanon now is that after his brother's death when he left everything behind and never saw Ravonna or Hjaldir again, he only offered his blade to other Nords, because he missed Ravvy and Hjaldir so much that he was desperately trying to see them in the people he worked with. And he also has a special soft spot for Nords now. He just loves how lively and loud and true-to-themselves they are :')

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CHAPTER 14 is up, me hearties! Embark on the craziest journey yet! This is a chapter that I've been waiting for so long to write and post 🥰🥰🥰

The first vs the last ✨️moodboards✨️

If you want to see the idiots interacting, you can read my fic here!

‼️Amazing fanart by amazing people‼️

Ravvy with her flute + girls' night

This amazing Ravonna portrait

‼️Moodboards from my amazing friends‼️

Wherever you go, there you are moodboard

Ravonna moodboard

Miraak moodboard

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Wip Wednesday, but it's so late that it's actually Thursday

I've been tagged by the wonderful @hircines-hunter to share some stuffs and I have some stuffs to share!! Not gonna lie, what I have for WYGTYA is so scandalous, that it might not be canon after all because of that FUCKING HIGH ELF and his insane chemistry with a certain someone, so instead, have some gay HOTHS pirates who will certainly be canon and no one will come between them. Anyway, if anyone has a surprise character have more chemistry with their main than the one they're supposed to be paired with, PLEASE DM ME I AM IN DIRE NEED OF SUFFERING TOGETHER

No pressure tags: @bougainvillea-and-saltwater @dirty-bosmer @kiir-do-faal-rahhe @illumiera @sheirukitriesfandom and sorry if you've already done this I am late late lmao

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He wraps a palm around his ankle so gently it hurts, examining it thoroughly, as if his leg was made out of the most precious and expensive porcelain. The Redguard slowly moves his foot upwards and he winces in pain.

“Shit. Did it hurt a lot?” Rhaim furrows his brows, his voice heavy with worry.

'Odd. Why would anyone worry for me?' “No. I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to hurt.” 

“No, it’s fucking not.” 

“It’s an injury. That’s what injuries do.” 

“Whatever. I don’t like the swelling one bit. How long has it been hurting?” 

Isn't that a million-septim question? How long has he been like this? How many years of pain and suffering? Of desecration and humiliation? Of chains around his ankle and slavery? “I don’t… remember.” The Nord says weakly, avoiding his eyes.

A surge of anger flows through Rhaim and fills him to the brim.

“You should probably leave me-”

“-Not happening. You’re a damn good fighter. I’m looking forward to sparring with you once you’re healed. Besides, you cook, and Signe’s taken a liking to you. Not giving up on you as long as you’ll have us.” He says, walking over to a fancy sofa. He talks so nonchalantly as if his words didn’t actually turn Edward’s world upside down. He grunts in satisfaction as he rips a long piece of the soft material. “Maybe it’ll be hard for you to accept this at first, but we want you in our crew” he approaches him again, a subtle smirk gracing his face. “Besides, I liked the attitude you had during our escape. Confident. Bratty. Fucking insufferable. I don’t think it was just adrenaline there.” He takes his foot in his hands once again and props it to his firm chest, wrapping the cloth around. “Tell me when it gets too tight and I’ll stop.” Golden eyes now making contact so intense that shivers run up Edward’s spine. 

“Y-you need to make it tighter for it to actually work, you know? I’m not made of glass. Besides, I’m pretty sure it’s already broken...” He rambles.

“Yeah, well, I promised I wasn’t gonna hurt you, and I keep my promises.”

“But You’d said we’d spar?” 

“That’s not the same thing.” 

“How is it not? We’ll literally hit each other.”

“Yea, but it’s different, 'cuz we’ll be on equal grounds then.”

“Equal grounds, huh?”

“I mean… We’ll see about that.”

“You really don’t think less of me because of the-”

“No.” He says firmly, letting Edward take the bandage from his hands, their fingers brushing and lingering for a moment.

He tightens it as much as he can, biting his lip in pain. Rhaim almost winces, too, or maybe he does. His hand automatically reaches his ankle, closing his fingers around it. He hasn't seen him this close: his slightly crooked nose, his small face scars, his impossibly blond eyelashes, longer than necessary, hiding pupils like he’s never seen in his life: one ocean-blue and one sand-brown. How is it possible, to carry both sea and land in your eyes? The fist in the hand that’s not holding his ankle clenches at the urge to reach out and brush wild blond fringe out of the way so that he sees those eyes better. He will not take advantage of him. Not now and not ever.

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WIIIIIP

Hi, everyone! It's been a hot minute. Life has been lifeing a bit too much and now I'm in a very stressful period. My mental health is... not doing amazing, but the escapism urge is biiiiig so chapters might be updated soon for both WYGTYA and HOTHS! I have no idea how consistent I will be, as I fluctuate between emotionally charged inspiration boom and mental exhaustion. I *do* have stuff to share for this tag game, however, so have snippets:

~WYGTYA chapter 17 (do not be fooled by this, the chapter is a fucking angst-fest):

“You…” she breathes, “you’ve been spending too much time with us.”

“Maybe too little. I’m no prude, you know?”

“Sorry, you just seem the type to put your hand on your hips and say ‘Language!’ when people swear.”

“Gods, is that the impression I give?”

“Eh, you’re right. I don’t know you well enough to say. I’m sorry, I think it’s just ‘cause you’re a healer, you know?” 

“Hopefully we’ll have enough time to fix my tarnished reputation, hm?”

“Hopefully.”

“We were talking about feelings.”

“You were.”

~HOTHS chapter 4:

“Still alive, and look! I found us a bartender.” Rhaim says, yanking a warhammer from a dead Thalmor and swinging it, hitting three in the process. He nods towards a Nord not too far away, kicking his way through the mass of Thalmor and throwing every sharp object he gets at them.

“I’m not a fucking bartender, you fucker!” He shouts, and Signe couldn’t be more elated. He looks feral, blood staining his rags and his blond hair. He fights with a rage that she can feel radiating, even from where she’s fighting.

He stabs a Thalmor right through the heart with a dagger. Signe realizes that she let herself get distracted by the possible new addition to the crew when she feels a sharp pain in her upper arm and sees that she’s been slashed by the very Thalmor who let them enter this place. But just as she was readying herself for a fight, a flying dagger pierces through her skull, right in the middle of her forehead, eyes rolling in the back of her head and dropping dead within seconds. She can hear a distant “Told you I have exceptional aim!”. Signe jerks her head back to the Nord, who’s approaching the body to retrieve the knife.

“The one-eyed woman! You’re kind of a celebrity around here.” He grins, kicking another Thalmor who approached Signe behind her back. “Nice to finally meet you, fellow Nord. I’m Edward. If you need a cook in your crew, I’m your man.”

🥰🥰EDWARD MY MOST BELOVED BOY 🥰🥰

I'm tagging @bougainvillea-and-saltwater @hircines-hunter @dirty-bosmer @bostoniangirl21 @illumiera if you haven't done this already and want to do it 💖💖

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@blossom-adventures tagged me in this really fun wip game! Thank you so much for the tag! 🥰🥰

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! Tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Oooh boy, there is *a lot* to unpack here, but here goes! Asks are *always* appreciated <3

Hymn of the High Seas Meet the crew (a.k.a. me planning and doing character building for my beloved pirate ocs)

Wherever you go, there you are

Wherever you go, you keep going back (AU of WYGTYA)

Something permanent

Aziracrow, for some reason (yes that is the name of the wip doc, I'm so sorry 💀)

Sea shanty of the month (it's exactly what it says in the title 🤣) -> already answered

Blackreach stuff -> already answered

The girls are fighting (it's Ravonna and Ulfric.)-> already answered

There's also lots of random docs that I use when inspiration strikes, and then there are the vague outlines for the 3 novels that I plan on writing. Not super comfortable in talking about those yet, but hopefully, I'll release the actual books in a few years! SO if you want to send me an ask (which I encourage greatly, I'm dying to ramble about the wips on the list) I would kindly ask not to send questions about the original novels <3. I'm going to tag @bougainvillea-and-saltwater @kiir-do-faal-rahhe @dirty-bosmer @nerevar-quote-and-star @sheirukitriesfandom @totally-not-deacon and anyone else who wants to participate. To those I already tagged, it is absolutely okay if you don't want to participate. No pressure at all! <3

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Bards and "barding" in the Elder Scrolls Universe

Long story short, I have a bard ldb oc, and I had to make it more interesting, so here are some headcanons I made for my fic!

Song journals are mandatory. Bards take songs from each other and spread the works of their fellow bards around the world! It is considered dishonorable to steal another bard's work, and if one is caught doing that, they are no longer considered a bard, and people are informed through rumours, songs mocking the stealer or public humiliation, maybe?

In order to be considered a true bard, one must have the heart of a poet. To be a dreamer. To pour their heart out on a piece of paper. It's not enough to have a nice voice and know how to play the lute in order to impress the ladies (looking directly at Mikael)

The Bard's college should be bigger and more beautiful. I understand that Skyrim is a poor country, but Solitude is the capital! Make the Bard's college truly a place of culture. With a beautiful main building with Gargoyles and Angels sculpted into it. When I think of a Bard's college, I think of Vienna, of Budapest, those old, beautiful buildings! And a big, beautiful garden where the artists can create and draw inspiration from! The love for nature and the world in general is such a poetic subject.

And on the inside, it should have tall ceilings and painted walls. All sorts of instruments exposed. Huge libraries filled with songs and poems. And an overall very friendly and welcoming atmosphere.

Of course, one doesn't have to graduate a Bard's College in order to become a bard. I see attending a college a more fancy approach to barding, and most artists who go there tend to stay there and pursue a career in teaching or doing research for the college

Most bards who don't stay at the college choose a life of adventure, opting for traveling the world and spreading their songs. However, others may settle down at a certain tavern, or limit themselves to just one province.

This one may be dumb, but it needs to be done in order to fit with my narrative. Barding can be really competitive sometimes, and "feuds" may start. So in order for the bard's privacy to be protected, such as recent locations, home, people in their life, they use made up names in songs! They invented entire regions and provinces in order to stay more 'incognito' to the world. (this headcanon was born because I want to incorporate multiple real-life songs in my fic, a lot of them being sea shanties, which mention England, Caribbean, Mexico, Portugal, Spain etc. a lot, and as I cannot find Tamrielic equivalents that fit with the rhyme and rythm of the songs, I decide to do this instead)

And last but not least, and I can't stress this enough: EACH!!! RACE!! HAVING!! ITS OWN!! FOLK!! MUSIC!!

This is pretty much it so far. I may come up with more. Anyway, maybe give my Miraak x ldb fic a try? It would make me really happy